Recently, I caught the initial explanation of ITCH: Investing in the Creative Hunch. Founder Todd Brown calls it “a pilot initiative of a new form…
I spent some hours this week browsing Fields Book Store on Polk. Founded in 1932 by George Fields, a devotee of Gurdjieff, the store for many…
(Evan Karp) I made it to City Arts & Lectures for the first time this past week to see Miranda July in conversation with her longtime friend…
As The Storming Bohemian I have written a fair amount over the last couple of years about creative consciousness lost and found. No one gets into…
The reason we have that sweet spot is that we want our students to be connected to and engaged with writers who are just at…
The avant-garde is the people of the world. Never more in my adult life have I realized that the avant-garde is the people of the…
(Evan Karp) It was 2pm on the sunny day of the opening night of Litquake XII and instead of working ahead to meet deadlines I…
(Nicole McFeely) There is a science to Jim Nelson’s writing, and I’m not just talking about the way he structures his sentences, paces his dialogue. I’m…
(Evan Karp) “Art is anything that is pointless and intentional,” says Chicken John in The Book of the IS, vol 1: Fail… to Win: Essays in…
(Evan Karp) “If you’re going to write a book, you might as well swing for the fence; you might as well just go find something…